2023

BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Jeff S. Nagy (University of Michigan)
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Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood University of Minnesota Press 2022. vii + 235 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1253-6 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1254-3
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This isn’t your parents’ history of computing. It would have to be at least your great-grandparents’. Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 finds a prehistory for digital (…)

* Health must be fast-tracked for 2030 | K. Srinath Reddy
* Implement Swaminathan Commission recommendations for a Real Tribute to MS Swaminathan | Soma Marla
* One Nation, One Election: No Solution | D Raja
* Anarchism in Germany 1945-1960s | Nick Heath

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 30, 2023
Over the past decades particularly in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 communal divisions have grown in society, and most of all in an accelerated fashion under the two-term (2014-2019) BJP Government at the center led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Communal speech and language of hate have seeped into everyday life and culture. There is a banalisation of offensive language and hateful (…)

The world needs more and better skilled health workers to attain the SDG targets and continue to foster global health beyond 2030.
The COVID-19 pandemic might no longer be a public health emergency but the world is still facing a crisis in health, and progress on Sustainable Development Goal 3 is under threat.
Climate change is bringing an array of health challenges, ranging from severe heat effects and extreme weather events to vector-borne diseases and food insecurity. Antimicrobial (…)

Will Khalistan be the next campaign issue of Modi as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prepares to go to elections for the 18th Lok Sabha, 2024, or even earlier? Remember, Modi won the 2019 elections to the 17th Lok Sabha with even higher numbers than his first triumph of 2014 on the hype created by the killing of 40 CRPF personnel travelling from Jammu to Srinagar by road. Republic TV head, an unabashed Modi bhakt, was jumping from his anchor stool not out of anguish for the sad and untimely (…)

The people of India and their governments, irrespective of ideological sheds, remember their beloved leader, the Father of the Nation with gratitude. This is precisely because of the grand legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and its impact on the masses remains so deep that no government in India can afford to ignore it, whether it likes or not, be it a political party with a legacy of Nehru or Savarkar. Even the global community and organisations such as the United Nations Organization (UNO) also (…)

A year back I was travelling to Bhopal from Delhi on a train and met a few farmers in my compartment. While introducing myself I casually asked them if they knew Dr. Swaminathan Ji. Immediately two of them nodded affirmatively and said “Swaminathan sipharoso lagu karo” (Implement the recommendations of Swaminathan commission. Farmers around the country knows Dr Swaminathan not only for Kayan Sona, a high-yielding dwarf wheat, but also his pro-farmer recommendations, including on crop (…)

Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
To, Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Government of India
Respected Shri Narendra Modi ji,
Dt. 28th September, 2023
I am writing this to express my concern about the plight of over 3,000 employees of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) who have not received their salaries for the last 20 months. HEC is one of India’s oldest and ablest Public (…)

Very recently, the BJP government in India celebrated the passing of the Women’s Bill 2023, seeking to reserve 33% of seats in Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for women, in both houses of the Parliament. The Prime Minister characterized it as a “defining moment in our nation’s democratic journey.” However, the mode of governance in India in recent times has a democratic deficit.
The present government has made Aadhaar mandatory in the delivery of welfare benefits to the people. Global (…)

The making of the Constitution commenced with a clear awareness of the immense diversity of our country and the need to address and accommodate the same while upholding the principles of justice and equality. The road towards democracy was embarked upon with a strong sense of representation and recognition. Universal adult franchise was one of the early expressions of this vision.
Similarly, a clear division of subjects between the Union and state governments was designed to aid the (…)